5.3* 5.3A* 5.3C*

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Theme
Grade:	5th Grade
Standard:	5.3*
Description:	Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Standard:	5.3A*
Description:	Compare and contrast themes or moral lessons of several words of fiction from various cultures.
Standard:	5.3C*
Description:	Explain the effect of a historical event or movement on the theme of a work of literature.

Theme: A theme of a story is a life lesson that teaches the reader about life and the world through the characters and the events.

When identifying the theme of a story, look for:

An idea that applies to more than one person or a situation
Example: Friends should look out for each other.
What a character learns from his/her own or the others’ mistakes
Example: When you do something bad, something bad happens to you.
The main idea of the story
Example: Family is important.
The challenges characters in the story or a drama face.
Example: Facing one’s worst fears.
The topic the speaker of a poem addresses.
Example: The idea of people changing over time.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)